Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-06-17
The FreesDelivery System.

IT GOES INTO EFFECT JULY 1-APPOINT
MENT OF THE CARRIERs-THE NEW
PosTOFFICE OPENS JULY 1.
On July the Postoflice will open at its
new quarters in the new building on the
square above its present location. 1t will
be entirely reftted; with $40 lock boxes all
new. and all the most modern postoffice
appliances. On that day the free delivery
of mails to all parts of the city, by letter
carriers, will begin. We give below list
of the letter carriers appointed, their sal
aries. the districts they serve, and the loca-
tion of the boxes from which they gather
the mail. The Council. not yet having
adopted the new plan Of numbering cross
and lateral streets, it is very difficult for
citizen to understand the locations by
the names of the streets given, SO we give
in addition some familiar name Of a resi-
dent there.
Carrier No 1, W. Starke miller, salary
$500; number of boxes, 7.-Boundary of
gusta streets. Boxes-at corner Church
and Federal. (Rev. DR.. Nelson 's); Madison
and Johnson, Tin front of Wesleyan Fe-
male Institute); one in front of Stanton
Female Seminary; ore at the West End
store; Hotchkiss and Winthrop streets.
(Sear's Hill near electric light; one near
cemetery gate; Johnson and Bagby streets,
ION reservoir hill opposite Chas. Graf
tan's}.
Carrier No. 2, N. M. Warner, salary
5000; number Of boxes, 5.-Boundary OF
district, south of Main and east Of Angus
ia streets. Boxes--at corner OF Augusta
and New Courthouse streets; Hale House
corner; Virginia Hotel corner; Valley
Railroad Depot; Kalorama and Coalter
streets, w. F. Summerson's corner).
Carrier No. 8, Thomas E. Fuller, salary
5000; number Of boxes 13.-Boundary OF
district, north Of Main and east of Angus
ia. Boxes at-Frederick and Augusta;
Augusta and Academy Opposite Mrs. n.
K. Trout's); Augusta and Prospect Jacob
Hangers corner); Augusta and New (near
the old Jno. B. Evans place.; Market and
Points (near Jno. B. Hoge's residence);
one near KabIe's Academy; Frederick and
New augusta Female Seminary corner);
Frederick and Coalter (Col. W. L. Bum
gardeners corner); Short and Winchester
(near w. J. Nelson 81; Main street at'D.
D. q B. Institution gate; Main and Mar
ket VALLEY Mutual corner); Main and
New wv. T.. Olivier's corner); Main and
Goa tier ID. A. Kayser's corner.)
Carrier No. 4, Paul Crow, salary 5000;
10 boxes Boundary of district, north of
Main and west of Augusta. Boxes at
Main and Augusta; Water and Frederick
cdr. Reese's corner); St. Clair and Main
a.. Moran's corner); Lewis and Main
MRS. Bayly's corner); Main and Green
Daniel Crimmen's corner); Lewis and
Frederick (2nd Presbyterian church cor
ner); Lewis street and Churchvilie road
(Evans' factory cornerl, City Water
Works; Washington and Frederick lin
front of Virginia Female Institute); Fred
erick and Green (H. st. G.. Tucker s
corner).
The postmaster has recommended ohm
J. Dixon to the Department for appoint
ment to the position of substitute carrier.
Tie mail deliveries by carriers will be
at Z A. M, 10 A.. M. and Z P. M, and
unelr cI;,cntians from the boxes will be
made about s A. M, 2 2. M. ana i p M.
All persons who desire their letters de-
lIvered by carriers will leave their name
and house number with the General De-
livery Clerk, at the post-office, and after
July 1, they will get their mail in that
way.